“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”

“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.”